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So...after a lot of prep work, i am really happy to announce that as of two weeks ago, the new Simplicity In Sound officially opened for business and started taking in cars for real
(the accord sedan posted earlier was more of a practice round for Joey and I)
This past week, we finished three of the first batch of builds and here is the first among them. I was primary on this project, but i am sure when you look at the pics, you will be able to tell haha.
The car is a 2012 Honda Accord Coupe, and the goals are:
1. stealthy and clean job for a daily drivfer
2. achieve a nice level of sound quality
3. retain as much usability and trunk space as possible
so, lets get started.
one of the best things about having Joey as part of S i S is his ability to fabricate metal mounting brackets. Previously, i would have found a piece of car's plastic or metal to secure a fuse holder, but now, this accord gets to have a custom made metal bracket just for that purpose, bolted to OEM holes
here are the two pieces of metal bracketry that Joey fabbed up and painted:
Utilizing a best kits dash kit, we installed a pioneer avh-x5500BHS double din unit, the customer already had an aftermarket screen/nav module installed in the upper dash location, i simply tied the two together and removed some functionality from the top module such as blue tooth, that will now be handled by the Pioneer.
here is a shot of the wiring harness organized and bundled behind the dash with the PAC steering wheel control retention module:
The car utilizes a mosconi 6to8 DSP for all signal processing, and all tuning can be done from the front seat via a BT enabled laptop for wireless tuning
For the front stage, i evaluated the a pillar for the tweeter mounting, but in the end, i realized that in order to clear the instrument cluster shroud, i would have to space it up so high that it would have negated any advantage for depth of stage. So we went with a totally OEM look.
here are the two doors in their finished form, virtually 100 percent OEM:
but behind the scenes, first, two sets of speaker wires are run into each door:
then the outter door skin received a roughly 25 percent coverage with Focal Blackhole Tile, which greatly helped with reducing their resonance:
next, the tiny oem openings were trimmed out a bit, and four rivet nuts were secured to the metal:
next the entire door was sound proofed with STP foam and CLD damper around the speakers:
we fabbed up these spacer baffles for the speakers and coated them thoroughly with truck bedliner to protect them against the elements:
then these baffles were bolted to the door via the rivet nutserts we put in earlier:
and a set of illusion audio Carbon C6 midbass was secured in place:
the inside of the plastic door card then received a bit of STP damper to prevent resonance:
the same procedure was then repeated on the passenger side:
moving onto the tweeters, here is what they look like now, a seasoned accord veteran will notice that the grill is covered in grille cloth instead of the OEM plastic:
here is what i did:
first, i took apart the oem tweeter housing and snapped off the grille:
then i prepped the illusion carbon tweeters for mounting by removing their protective grille, which would have made them too high for the OEM grille piece. i was also not impressed with the small opening on the stock grille, so i hollowed them out to fully expose the copper dome of the C6 tweeter:
the illusion tweeters were then secured to the tweeter pods from the backside:
and the oem grilles wrapped in HD grille cloth:
then these new grilles were secured to the pods via HD epoxy, and on the inside, i threw on some more STP damper to help reduce any resonance as the C6 tweeter can reach fairly low
This past week, we finished three of the first batch of builds and here is the first among them. I was primary on this project, but i am sure when you look at the pics, you will be able to tell haha.
The car is a 2012 Honda Accord Coupe, and the goals are:
1. stealthy and clean job for a daily drivfer
2. achieve a nice level of sound quality
3. retain as much usability and trunk space as possible
so, lets get started.
one of the best things about having Joey as part of S i S is his ability to fabricate metal mounting brackets. Previously, i would have found a piece of car's plastic or metal to secure a fuse holder, but now, this accord gets to have a custom made metal bracket just for that purpose, bolted to OEM holes
here are the two pieces of metal bracketry that Joey fabbed up and painted:
Utilizing a best kits dash kit, we installed a pioneer avh-x5500BHS double din unit, the customer already had an aftermarket screen/nav module installed in the upper dash location, i simply tied the two together and removed some functionality from the top module such as blue tooth, that will now be handled by the Pioneer.
here is a shot of the wiring harness organized and bundled behind the dash with the PAC steering wheel control retention module:
The car utilizes a mosconi 6to8 DSP for all signal processing, and all tuning can be done from the front seat via a BT enabled laptop for wireless tuning
For the front stage, i evaluated the a pillar for the tweeter mounting, but in the end, i realized that in order to clear the instrument cluster shroud, i would have to space it up so high that it would have negated any advantage for depth of stage. So we went with a totally OEM look.
here are the two doors in their finished form, virtually 100 percent OEM:
but behind the scenes, first, two sets of speaker wires are run into each door:
then the outter door skin received a roughly 25 percent coverage with Focal Blackhole Tile, which greatly helped with reducing their resonance:
next, the tiny oem openings were trimmed out a bit, and four rivet nuts were secured to the metal:
next the entire door was sound proofed with STP foam and CLD damper around the speakers:
we fabbed up these spacer baffles for the speakers and coated them thoroughly with truck bedliner to protect them against the elements:
then these baffles were bolted to the door via the rivet nutserts we put in earlier:
and a set of illusion audio Carbon C6 midbass was secured in place:
the inside of the plastic door card then received a bit of STP damper to prevent resonance:
the same procedure was then repeated on the passenger side:
moving onto the tweeters, here is what they look like now, a seasoned accord veteran will notice that the grill is covered in grille cloth instead of the OEM plastic:
here is what i did:
first, i took apart the oem tweeter housing and snapped off the grille:
then i prepped the illusion carbon tweeters for mounting by removing their protective grille, which would have made them too high for the OEM grille piece. i was also not impressed with the small opening on the stock grille, so i hollowed them out to fully expose the copper dome of the C6 tweeter:
the illusion tweeters were then secured to the tweeter pods from the backside:
and the oem grilles wrapped in HD grille cloth:
then these new grilles were secured to the pods via HD epoxy, and on the inside, i threw on some more STP damper to help reduce any resonance as the C6 tweeter can reach fairly low